ScheduleFriday 10:00am - 1:00pm :: VIDEO 1 :: AMV OverflowFriday 7:00pm - 9:30pm :: VIDEO 1 :: AMV Contest (This screening has 1 hour for seating from 6:00-7:00. There will be a room clear prior to seating. From 9:30-10:00 there is seating for Fan Parodies, but there is not a room clear.)Saturday 9:00am - noon :: VIDEO 1 :: AMV Overflow part deux (we'll show EVERYTHING that wasn't shown at the first overflow, plus the troll videos again since we "only" have 5:40 worth of overflow content.)Saturday 3:00pm - 5:30pm :: VIDEO 1 :: AMV Contest (This screening has 1 hour for seating from 2:00-3:00. There will be a room clear prior to seating. From 5:30-6:00 there is seating for Battle Royale and since they will be checking 18+ wristbands, this will also entail a room clear.)Saturday 6:30pm - 9:30pm :: PANEL 1 :: Iron Editor/AMV Contest Award CeremonySunday 9:00am - 11:30am :: VIDEO 1 :: AMV Contest Encore Presentation (As this is a no-voting screening, there will not be a room clear/seating block before or afterwards)

Overflow Info"Overflow" is where we show all of the entries that were not outright disqualified, but also did not make the final cut. We intend to show everyone's video once, and we have enough time this year to do so (thanks Jim!). Right now the playlist is set up in alphabetical order by studio name, but BY ALL MEANS if you have an entry in Overflow, pay a visit to the man behind the curtain and we'll bump your video to the top of the playlist.

L33t-Seat Badge InfoIf you submitted a video to the contest and DID NOT get disqualified, then you and 2 friends are eligible for special supplementary badges. These badges are NOT replacements for paid Otakon membership badges. These badges allow you to sit in the really good reserved rows, and allow you to skip the line and walk right into the theater. We do ask that you show up AT LEAST 15 MINUTES BEFORE THE CONTEST STARTS or else we will give away any unclaimed "special" seats. They are only good for the Friday and Saturday AMV Contest screening as these are the only two AMV events that have a line (and they work for both days if you want to come twice!). If your video was categorized as a "troll" then that is still not disqualified, and you are still eligible for badges.

To pick up your badges, the creator themselves must visit room 312 in the BCC at one of thes scheduled times:Friday 2:00pm - 5:00pmFriday 9:30pm - 11:30pmSaturday noon - 1:30pmI will also try to have them on-hand during the overflow screenings.

Prescreening InfoCalling all people who have nothing better to do on a Saturday!

If you can drag yourself to Philadelphia PA by 11AM 6/23/2012, you get to help pick the finalists for the AMV contest!

Yes, you will have to watch every video, you don't just get to pop in, upvote your own entry, and leave. This is real work. If you're interested, PM "dji", 'cuz it's his house.

DRAGGED INTO THE 21ST CENTURY, KICKING AND SCREAMINGDue to powers beyond my control (Mike Lee making decisions without consulting people who use the video rooms) the AMV contest will be screened in WIDESCREEN this year. This means that despite what we've been doing for the past 20 years, if at all possible, you should NOT letterbox your footage ahead of time. Any AMVs that we receive pre-letterboxed, will be scaled up slightly so that the video doesn't have black bars on all 4 sides. I have NO problem doing this for you, so please, if your source footage has been pre-letterboxed, by all means, send what you have! If your source is natively 16x9, then send that. If your source is 4x3, we will play it in the center of the screen, no DragonBox style cropping will be performed on 4:3 videos.

If you're still confused, consult this image:Note that the dark grey area represents the screen that the video will be projected on.

I will be updating the official and unofficial rules ASAP.

New News that Will Soon Be Old'sup folks. I'm back for more fun, more abuse, and more fun abuse!

We are accepting entries at this time. Entries that were submitted prior to the rules being officially posted, will be looked at shortly.

The major changes this year are:1) I added a new rule prohibiting the use of your song/trailer's original music video/trailer footage, in your own AMV. It's subject to interpretation, but it'd generally be a good idea to avoid using the original music video as source footage in your own. It can very easily lead to us getting "teh sued". If you HAVE to use portions of the original music video, you can PROBABLY get around this limitation by applying a heavy video filter or two to the footage so that it is different enough from the original, though this is still open to Ota-lawyer's interpretation.2) We ARE aware that Anime Next takes place on our deadline weekend, so videos that win their first major award at Anime Next, are exempt from the anti-trolling rule, as prohibiting those entries would go against the spirit of the rule.

Administratively, the AMV Contest is now it's own department that reports directly to programming, so that's less red tape for us, and we have yet another Defense Against the Dark Arts Teacher Programming Department Head, who so far has been super cool and seemed genuinely interested in giving us what we need to continue to put on a great show!

I'll answer questions and things in this thread, and this first post will level-up over time to include updates about AMV-Contest-like-events going on at Otakon 2012.

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"With free bagels we can live like Kings!...Kings who have to pay for their own castle in order to get the free bagels!" - Omar Jenkins

Is it frowned upon to enter amv's in the contest if the video has already won an award recently at another convention? I'm kinda new to this but I've seen info on videos that state that they've won a bunch of awards at various conventions with the same video. So I'm assuming it's ok.

Drabaz86 wrote:Is it frowned upon to enter amv's in the contest if the video has already won an award recently at another convention? I'm kinda new to this but I've seen info on videos that state that they've won a bunch of awards at various conventions with the same video. So I'm assuming it's ok.

Otakon has an anti-trolling policy. Here's the excerpt from the rules VicBond007 posted:

Anti-Trolling Policy: If your entry has won First Place or Best in Show at any convention that has screened their contest before the Otakon AMV contest submission deadline, then your entry will be automatically disqualified.

Second Place, Runner-Up, Judge's Choice, etc. all DO NOT count and you may submit any entry that has won any of these awards without penalty Submissions that win their first award at AnimeNext 2012 are exempt from this rule. Otakon AMV Staff reserves the right to interpret the anti-trolling rule as they see fit.

Entries that were featured in the final AMV contest at any previous Otakon will be disqualified.

BasharOfTheAges wrote:For reference, though, otakon is like the only contest share does this (to that degree).

AnimeNext won't let even runners-up submit. At least, that's what they did last year.

Do they follow every other contest and DQ you after you already submitted? I was under the impression every other contest with a trolling clause was a "this is understood to be true at the time of submission" style thing, which is less hostile to smaller cons.

BasharOfTheAges wrote:For reference, though, otakon is like the only contest share does this (to that degree).

AnimeNext won't let even runners-up submit. At least, that's what they did last year.

Do they follow every other contest and DQ you after you already submitted? I was under the impression every other contest with a trolling clause was a "this is understood to be true at the time of submission" style thing, which is less hostile to smaller cons.

According to last year's rules, it was indeed "at time of submission", as with most other cons that have such rules.

But what I really wanted to post to say is that we're getting rid of that rule this year (you can thank my fellow staffers for that). We will still have an age restriction (nothing from before May 2011), but no award restrictions.

More on this when we get the rules finalized and the AnimeNEXT contest thread started, as I don't want to completely derail this one.

To stay somewhat on topic, I want to point out that Scintilla is talking about Anime Next, NOT Otakon. Otakon's anti-trolling rule is based on the submission deadline, not when we actually receive the submission. I just want to be clear to anyone casually stumbling around in this thread.

"With free bagels we can live like Kings!...Kings who have to pay for their own castle in order to get the free bagels!" - Omar Jenkins

Hoping to attend Otakon for the first time this year, and definitely submitting an AMV!I do have one question though (and this is a bit of a miscommunication on my part) but are we allowed to enter one video into more than one category? In the rules there it says 1 video/entrant, but I think I heard that its possible to submit, for example, a video into Romance and another video into Trailer/Parody?

EkaCoralian wrote:Hoping to attend Otakon for the first time this year, and definitely submitting an AMV!I do have one question though (and this is a bit of a miscommunication on my part) but are we allowed to enter one video into more than one category? In the rules there it says 1 video/entrant, but I think I heard that its possible to submit, for example, a video into Romance and another video into Trailer/Parody?